The Intelligence: The darkness before the Don
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Many of America’s business leaders reckon a second Trump term would be worse for them and for the economy than the first was—not that they’re speaking up about it. We examine just how much of Ukraine’s art and cultural heritage has been moved or looted in the course of the war (9:35). And why the price of olive oil is skyrocketing (17:17).
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| 0:00.0 | You match with Maya on Tinder, you agree you don't fancy each other, but she makes you laugh till it hurts. |
| 0:05.3 | She dragged you to a mate house on the outskirts of the city, and you actually have a great time. |
| 0:10.0 | You connect with some new people, like Isaac, and decide to go to the gallery in the city centre, |
| 0:15.8 | where you bond over your shared appreciation of silence. |
| 0:19.2 | And bit by bit, the world starts to feel so full of possibilities and you think what if I hadn't met |
| 0:26.0 | Maya on tinder it starts with a swipe download the app now The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:47.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:02.0 | The amount of art and cultural heritage that's been looted in Ukraine is truly staggering, and there's really only one sure-fire way for |
| 1:05.0 | Ukrainians to get back what's theirs. Win the war. |
| 1:09.7 | And it's quickly getting more expensive to have one of those allegedly life- prolonging Mediterranean diets. |
| 1:17.0 | Olive oil has gone through the roof. We ask why. But first. This week Donald Trump crushed it in Iowa's caucuses, the first about in the Republican |
| 1:47.4 | contest for presidential nominee. |
| 1:49.8 | We want to thank the great people of Iowa. Thank you. We love you all. It cemented |
| 1:55.4 | Mr. Trump's status as the party favorite and polls suggest he would win in a battle |
| 2:00.3 | against Joe Biden for the presidency. That rattles a lot of people who fear the effects of a second Trump term on businesses and the American economy. |
| 2:10.0 | In an interview with Bloomberg, Larry Summers, a pro-Biden former Treasury Secretary, |
| 2:14.7 | revealed his own worries. |
| 2:16.2 | I think all of this is very threatening to the American economy in the same way that populism, while it sometimes yields temporary and initial economic benefits. |
| 2:34.7 | It did for Mussolini. |
| 2:36.5 | It did for Perone in Argentina. |
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